Rimini

<p>'This rediscovered novel with a killer vintage soundtrack screams "summer reading"'<Br><b><i>THE TIMES</i></b></p><p>'A singular voice' <Br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i><Br></b><Br>'Tondelli shaped the sound of a generation' <Br><i><b>PARIS REVIEW<Br></b></i> <b><Br>Summer 1983, Rimini.</b><Br><Br><b>Against the crowded panorama of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect. </b><Br><Br>A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption.</p><p>A woman searching for her runaway teenage sister - and a new life after the end of her marriage. </p><p>A gossip columnist who follows the dramatic unfolding of an international literary prize. </p><p>A lonely musician, seeking solace amidst the clubs and discos that throng Rimini's beachfront strip. <Br><Br>A pair of penniless film directors who hatch a harebrained scheme to finance their dreams.<Br><Br>And the owner of a crumbling hotel, whose bad fortunes will drive him to desperate lengths.<Br><Br><b>An electrifying portrait of the simmering world of grifters, hedonists, dreamers and crooks who set the Italian Riviera of the 1980s alight, <i>Rimini </i>is a dazzling masterpiece of contemporary fiction, now translated into English for the first time. <Br></b><Br>'Tondelli sets out to subvert the canons of holiday literature . . . [<i>Rimini </i>is] the Great Adriatic Novel'<Br><b><i>IL GIORNALE<Br></i></b><Br>'In his meteoric career, Tondelli established himself as the most precise chronicler of 1980s provincial Italy and its atmosphere of widespread hedonism and extravagance . . . a merry-go-round of cheap thrills and fleeting summer romances'<Br><b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b></p>